Compound Sentences (Coordination) versus Complex
Sentences (Subordination)
Good writing requires a mixture of all four kinds of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. A composition with only short,
simple sentences is boring and ineffective, as is writing that uses too many compound sentences. Writing with complex sentences and participial
phrases, structures that use subordination, is generally considered more mature, interesting, and effective in style.
Compare the two models that follow. The first model is an example of overcoordination, or writing with too many compound sentences. In the second
model, some of the coordination has been replaced by subordination-complex sentences in sentences 5,6,7,9,11, and 12 and participial phrases in
sentences 5 and 10. Notice, however, that coordination has been preserved where the ideas expressed are equal (sentences 1, 4, and 8).
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